Photo by Michael K. Dakota
Virginia Volzke taught then led a group of Emporia residents the Thriller dance and exactly on cue simultaneously danced with others all over the world in an attempt to garner the records for syncronized dancing. (Michael K. Dakota/Gazette)
A group from Emporia State University will go down in the record books after participating in an world-wide event called “Thrill the World.”
The Thrill the World event is a world-wide simultaneous dance to Michael Jackson’s song “Thriller.” The event was started in Toronto, Ontario, in 2006. Sixty-two dancers participated in the first event, which was organized in two weeks, according to www.thrilltheworld.com, the event’s official Web site. The event set the first Guinness World Record for the “Largest Thriller Dance” on page eight of the 2008 book, according to the event’s Web site. Dancers each year learn the dance in only one day, performing it at the same time around the world.
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